Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(NUMISMATICS.) Budé, Guillaume. De asse et partibus eius libri quinque. Title in red and black with Badius printing press device, within woodcut historiated architectural border. [8], 202 leaves. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, later 18th-century calf, rebacked in the 19th century, spine scuffed, minor wear along edges of covers. [Paris]: in aedibus Asce[n]sianis, (April 1532)

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The first book on ancient coinage, originally published in 1514. Adams B3105. From the library of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth, with coroneted monogram on spine.